Seth Godin asked this timely question on his blog:

“When you’re done with your email queue, are you done?
Do you spend your day responding and reacting to incoming [messages] all day… until the list is empty? … and then you’re done.“

This is a great follow-up to the discussion at IORG a few weeks ago.

• About 12% of the average worker’s time is spent thinking or reflecting, while 28% of time is consumed by disruptions  from things that aren’t urgent  or important,  like unnecessary email messages and the time it takes to get back on track. (Jonathan Spira, Basex)
• Employees at Intel spend about 20 hours per week managing email, 2 hours of which is unnecessary email. (Nathan Zeldes, Intel)

New social media with its constant chatter of invites, pings and pokes seems to exacerbate the problem.

Is most of your day consumed by simply processing information, rather than initiating, reaching out, inventing and designing?

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